The Paterwock is back!

Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!

“Environment Secretary” is such an inaccurate term to describe Owen Paterson – for hardly a week goes by without him angling to damage it.

Just last week he was doing the dirty on Oswestry, despite it being his own constituency, refusing to get involved in the issue of whether the Hill Fort’s setting should be damaged and saying these things are best decided by local councillors. As if !

This week he has returned to his previous theme of biodiversity offsetting. But it’s a new and nastier form of it – he thinks there should sometimes be an option for developers to be allowed to destroy ancient woodland if they agree to plant many more new trees elsewhere….

Maybe we’re misjudging him, but isn’t it strange that every single decision Mr Paterson makes in defence of the environment involves opportunities for the Government’s developer-friends to make loads and loads of wonga!

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J K Rowling has beings called Dementors that suck out your joy. Under this current political regime we also have the Despoilers who appear happy to suck up the environment. And for what – to build poor standard properties with a superfluity of bathrooms and too much plastic. We can’t even build low energy eco-homes as an absolute requirement of ANY and EVERY development. Hideous, short-term, ugly-mindedness for which other people pay the price.

Great post, BTW. Thank you for winding me up on this dismal Tuesday morning.

Nail on the head stuff. No misjudgement at all – the evidence speaks volumes. Just wish I could stop thinking that he’s been put there on purpose to make sure no money is spent on anything environmental or cultural and he lets the developers rampage through our heritage and gets as many trees cut down for houses as possible.